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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 17:20:21 CDT

Dear David, VMD-L,
  VMD 1.8.1 requires MacOS X 10.2 or newer.
I tried building some of the components that the new version of
VMD uses on MacOS X 10.1 but was never able to get Tk to work
correctly on 10.1. As a result, VMD 1.8.1 (the first version that
supports Tk on the Mac) requires that you be running MacOS X 10.2 or
later. This was a tough call in some ways, but we felt it was the
right move to include Tk in the new MacOS X version of VMD, even though
it meant that we couldn't support MacOS X 10.1 systems any more.
You can run VMD 1.8 on the older systems still, but its probably best
to consider getting the new version of MacOS X if possible, they've
made a lot of OpenGL improvments since MacOS X 10.1 came out, so its
a pretty good upgrade even for the older machines...

I'll be updating some of the web pages to make this requirement more
obvious in case it comes up again.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 19:14:15 -0300
> Subject: Running VMD1.8.1 on OSX
> From: david jakeman <david.jakeman_at_dal.ca>
> To: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> Hello.
> I am unable to run VMD 1.8.1 on a MacOS X system (V 10.1.5). Having
> downloaded the .dmg file and installed the disk I copy the VMD 1.8.1
> file onto the hard disk and double click it. After a couple of seconds a
> 'the application VMD 1.8.1 has unexpectedly quit' message appears.
> I have done the following too with no change in message:
> chmod a+x "VMD 1.8.1.app/Contents/MacOS/VMDLauncher"
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> PS Version 1.8 works fine and dandy.
>
> Dalhousie University
> Halifax
> Canada
> Tel: 902 494 7159 

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